Job 14 Cross References - NSB

¹ »Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble. ² »He springs up like a flower and fades away. He is like a fleeting shadow and does not endure. ³ »Do you look on such a person? Will you bring him before you for judgment? ⁴ »Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one! ⁵ »Man’s days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. ⁶ »So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man. ⁷ »At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. ⁸ »Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil, ⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth growth like a plant. ¹⁰ »On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more! ¹¹ »Just like water that disappears from the sea or a riverbed that becomes parched and dry, ¹² so men lie down and do not rise. Until the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep. ¹³ »If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me! ¹⁴ »If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come. ¹⁵ »You will call and I will answer you! You will long for the creature your hands have made. ¹⁶ »Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin. ¹⁷ »My transgressions will be sealed up in a bag. You will cover over my sin. ¹⁸ »As a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place, ¹⁹ as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope. ²⁰ »You overpower him once and for all, and he is gone! You change his countenance and send him away. ²¹ »His sons are honored and he does not know it. They are brought low and he does not see it. ²² »He feels but the pain of his own body and mourns only for himself.«

⁹ Jacob answered: »My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.«

⁷ »A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

¹ »Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person’s life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.

⁶ »My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

²⁵ »My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.

¹⁴ »What is man, that he could be pure? Or he who is born of woman, that he could be righteous?

⁴ »How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure?

⁵ »Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

⁵ Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

¹⁷ I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.

²³ All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is vanity.

¹¹ »I tell you, there is none, born of women, greater then John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

¹⁵ »You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

⁹ »After all we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are a mere shadow.

²⁵ »My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good. ²⁶ »They pass by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.

⁵ You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass. ⁶ In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away. ⁷ Your anger consumes us. We are troubled by your rage. ⁸ You set our sins in front of you. You put our secret sins in the light of your presence. ⁹ Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one long sigh.

⁷ Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.

¹² Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.

¹¹ My days are like a lengthened shadow and I wither away like grass.

¹⁵ Man’s days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶ The wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

⁴ Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

¹³ Things will not go well with the wicked. He will not prolong his days. His days are like a shadow. He does not respect God.

⁶ A voice shouts: »Cry out!« And I said: »What shall I cry?« The voice shouts: »All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. ⁷ »The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass. ⁸ »The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.«

¹⁰ But the rich must be glad when God humbles them. This is because they will wither like wildflowers and pass away. ¹¹ The sun rises with scorching heat and withers the grass. The flower falls off and its beauty perishes. So also the rich man will fade away in his pursuits.

¹⁴ You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

²⁴ All people are like grass. All their glory is like the blossom of a flower. The grass withers and the flower drops off.

¹⁷ »What is man that you should magnify him and set your mind on him? ¹⁸ »For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.

¹⁹ »If I speak of strength and justice, he is strong! Who will appoint my day in court? ²⁰ »Though I was righteous, my own mouth would condemn me. If I were blameless it would prove me perverse.

³² »God is not a man, as I am: That I may answer him and we should go to court together.

²⁵ »Will you torment a leaf driven two and fro? Will you chase after dry chaff?

²⁷ »You fasten my feet in shackles. You keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

⁴ what is man that you remember him or the son of man that you take care of him?

² Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

³ Jehovah, what is man, that you notice him or the son of man, that you regard him!

¹⁹ We know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law. Every mouth may be stopped and the entire world may become liable to God for punishment.

³ When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

⁴ »How then can a man be righteous before God? How can one born of woman be pure? ⁵ »If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes, ⁶ »How much less man, who is but a maggot and a worm!«

⁵ You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.

³⁵ The angel replied: »Holy Spirit would come to you and the power of the Most High will envelope you. Because of this the newborn will be called the Son of God.«

⁶ »That which is born from the flesh is flesh and that which is born from the Spirit is spirit.

¹² Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

⁸ Those influenced by the sinful flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in flesh but in Spirit, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. If any one does not have the Spirit of Christ he does not belong to him.

³ We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

¹⁰ »In his hand are the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

¹⁴ »If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my change (release) to come.

²¹ »For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off in death?

¹³ »But he is unchangeable and who can turn him? He does what he wants to do. ¹⁴ »He performs what is appointed for me. He is mindful of many such matters.

⁴ »Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.

⁹ You set a boundary that they may not go beyond. They will not return to cover the earth.

²⁹ You hide your face, and they are frightened. You take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are considered as nothing. He does according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth. None can stop him, or say to him: ‘What do you do?’

²⁶ »This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;

³⁰ In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.

²⁴ »Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

³⁶ »The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god. He will speak horrable (atrocious) things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the indignation is accomplished for that which is determined will be done.

²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’

²⁶ »From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.

²⁷ It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:

¹⁸ »I am alive! I was dead and, behold, I am alive forever, Amen. I have the keys of death and the grave.

⁷ »To the angel of the congregation in Philadelphia write: He says these things. He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.

¹ »Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person’s life is long and hard like that of a hired hand. ² »It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid.

¹⁶ »I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.

¹⁹ »How long will you keep looking at me and let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

²⁰ »Are not my days few in number? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy

¹³ »Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.«

¹ »The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. ² »He made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day. Then he sent them into his vineyard. ³ »He went out the third hour and saw others in the marketplace doing nothing.« ⁴ »He said to them: ‘Go to the vineyard with the others. I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went to work. ⁵ »He went out the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. ⁶ »The eleventh hour, he saw others doing nothing. He asked: ‘Why are you here all the day doing nothing?’ ⁷ »They said: ‘No man has given us work.’ He told them to go work with the rest in the vineyard. ⁸ »When evening came, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager: ‘Let the workers come and pay them from the last to the first.’

¹⁰ »He beats me down on every side until I am gone. He uproots my hope like a tree.

¹ There must go forth a twig out of the stump of Jesse. A branch (sprout) (shoot) (descendant) from his roots will bear fruit.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill the entire world with fruit.

¹⁵ ‘»Leave the stump and roots in the earth. Apply to it a band of iron and copper in the tender grass of the field. Let it be wet with the dew of heaven. Let its portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth.

²³ ‘»Since the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven saying: Chop down the tree, and destroy it. Leave the stump and the roots in the earth. With a band of iron and brass leave it in the tender grass of the field and let it be wet with the dew of heaven. Let its portion be with the beasts of the field till seven times pass over it.« ²⁴ This is the interpretation, O king. It is the decree from the Most High that has come to my lord the king. ²⁵ You will be driven from men. Your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will eat grass like oxen and will be wet with the dew of heaven. Seven times shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

¹⁹ But your dead will live. Their bodies will rise. You, who dwell in the dust, wake up and shout for joy. Your dew is like the dew of the morning; the earth will give birth to her dead.

²⁴ »Truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit.

³⁶ You fool, that which you sow is not alive unless it first dies.

³ ‘Say The Lord Jehovah says: »A large eagle came to Lebanon. It had large wings with long, colorful feathers. It took hold of the top of a cedar tree. ⁴ »‘»It broke off the highest twig and carried it to a country of merchants. It planted the twig in a city of merchants. ⁵ »‘»Then it took a seedling from that country and planted the seedling in fertile soil. The eagle planted the seedling like a willow where there was plenty of water. ⁶ »‘»The plant sprouted and grew into a low vine that spread over the ground. Its branches turned upward toward the eagle. Its roots grew downward. Thus it became a vine, producing branches and growing shoots. ⁷ »‘»There was another large eagle with large wings and many feathers. Now, the vine stretched its roots toward this eagle and sent its branches toward the eagle so that the eagle could water it. The vine turned away from the garden where it was planted. ⁸ »‘»It was planted in good soil beside plenty of water so that it could grow branches, bear fruit, and become a wonderful vine.«’ ⁹ »Say, ‘The Lord Jehovah says: »Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it and all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again. ¹⁰ »‘»Though it is transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it, wither on the beds where it grew?«’«

²² »‘Someday, I, Jehovah, will cut a tender twig from the top of a cedar tree. I will then plant it on the peak of Israel's tallest mountain, where it will grow strong branches and produce large fruit. ²³ »‘All kinds of birds will find shelter under the tree, and they will rest in the shade of its branches. ²⁴ ‘»Every tree in the forest will know that I, Jehovah, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will keep my word.«’«

¹⁰ ‘»Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water. It was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

¹⁷ Some of the branches are broken off. You, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them. Therefore you partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree with them. ¹⁸ Do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. ¹⁹ You will say, »The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.« ²⁰ They were broken off because of unbelief! You stand by faith! Do not be conceited but be reverent. ²¹ God did not spare the natural branches and he will not spare you! ²² Observe both God’s kindness and severity. Severity is for those who fail to continue. But kindness is for you as long as you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you will be cut off. ²³ If they do not continue in unbelief they will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. ²⁴ If you were cut out of the olive tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a garden olive tree: how much more could these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

³³ Jacob finished giving these instructions to his sons. He pulled his feet into his bed. He took his last breath and joined his ancestors in death.

¹¹ »Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

⁷ »O God, remember that my life is but a breath. I will never again see good. ⁸ »You see me now but not for long. Your eyes will be on me but I will be dead. ⁹ »Just as a cloud dissipates and vanishes; those who die will not come back. ¹⁰ »They are gone forever from their home. They will not be seen again.

¹⁸ »‘Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.

²⁰ »But the eyes of the wicked will fail and they will not escape. Their hope will become a dying gasp.«

¹² so men lie down and do not rise. Until the heavens are no more, men will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

¹³ »Should I look for the grave as my home and make my bed in the darkness? ¹⁴ »If I say to the pit: You are my father! And to the worm: You are my mother and sister! ¹⁵ »Where is my hope? Can you see any hope left in me? ¹⁶ »Will hope go down with me to the gates of the grave? Will my hope rest with me in the dust?«

²⁶ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

³² The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

⁵⁰ Jesus cried again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.

²² »The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man died and was buried. ²³ »He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side.

¹⁰ Then she fell down at his feet and died. The young men came in, and found her dead. They carried her out to be buried by her husband.

¹⁵ »But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow ¹⁶ when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow, ¹⁷ but that cease to flow in the dry season, and in the heat vanishes from their channels. ¹⁸ »Caravans turn aside from their routes. They go into the wasteland and perish.

⁵ The waters of the Nile River will dry up. The riverbed will be parched and dry.

¹⁸ »Why do I suffer constant pain? Why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable?«

¹³ »For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be asleep and at rest.

²¹ »Why not just pardon my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.«

²¹ before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, ²² to the land of dark night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.«

²⁵ »I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth. ²⁶ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh. ²⁷ »I will see him with my own eyes, not with someone else's. My heart fails inside me!

²³ »Yes, I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.

²⁶ »They will perish, but you endure. All of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing you will renew them and they will be renewed.

¹⁹ What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity. ²⁰ All go to one place. All came from the dust and all return to dust. ²¹ Who knows the breath of man that goes upward, and the breath of the animal that goes downward to the earth?

⁵ Also when they will be afraid of what is high, and fears will be in the way, and the almond tree will flourish, and the grasshopper will be a burden, and the caper berry breaks and desire fails, man goes to his long lasting home and the mourners go about the streets.

⁶ »Lift up your eyes to the heavens. Look at the earth below. The heavens will vanish like smoke and the earth will wear out like a garment. Its inhabitants die like flies (gnats). But my salvation will last forever! My righteousness will never fail.

¹⁷ »Behold! I WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

²² »The new heaven and earth that I am about to make will continue in my presence,« declares Jehovah. »So your descendants and your name will also continue in my presence.

² »Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

³⁵ »Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

¹¹ Then he told them: »Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. I go to wake him out of sleep.« ¹² The disciples said, »Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he would recover.« ¹³ Jesus spoke of his death. They thought he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

²¹ whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things. God spoke about this through all his holy prophets since the world began.

²⁰ For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it’s own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

¹⁴ For this reason it says: »Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.«

¹⁴ If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. ¹⁵ We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

⁷ According to the same word, the heavens that now are, and the earth, are reserved for fire, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

¹⁰ The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up (destroyed). (Joel 2:31) (Zephaniah 1:14) ¹¹ Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved (destroyed), what manner of persons should you be in all holy living and godliness? ¹² Look for and earnestly desire the coming presence of the »Day of Jehovah.« (Zephaniah 1:14) The heavens being on fire will be dissolved (destroyed), and the elements will melt with intense heat! ¹³ We look for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. This is according to his promise.

¹¹ I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

¹ I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. There was no more sea.

¹ God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark. He sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

¹⁷ »There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. ¹⁸ »Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout. ¹⁹ »The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, with favor toward your people. Visit me with your salvation.

¹ In that day you will say: »I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

²⁰ Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut the doors behind you. Hide yourselves for a little while until his rage has passed by. ²¹ Behold! Jehovah is coming out of his dwelling to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The earth will disclose (reveal) the bloodshed upon her. She will conceal her slain no longer.

¹ The righteous perishes and no man takes it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, while no one considers that the righteous is taken away from evil. ² He will enter into peace. The honorable and honest will rest in his bed.

³² »No one knows the day or hour. The angels in heaven do not know. The Son of God does not know. Only the Father knows!

⁴² He said: »Jesus, remember me when you come in your kingdom.«

⁷ He replied: »It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has set within His own authority.

³¹ »He has established a day (time) in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man [Jesus] whom he has ordained. Of that he gives proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.« (John 5:22) (Isaiah 2:4) (Acts 10:42)

¹⁵ »Though he put me to death, yet I will hope in him. I will defend my ways before him.

⁵ »Man’s days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

²⁵ »I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth. ²⁶ »Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.

¹⁶ After this Job lived a hundred and forty years. He saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

¹⁴ Hope (wait) (expect) (trust) in Jehovah and be strong. Let your heart be courageous. Yes, hope in Jehovah.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) I waited patiently for Jehovah and he bent down to me and heard my cry. ² He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the mud and clay. He set my feet upon a rock and made me stand erect.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him. ²⁶ It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of Jehovah.

¹ The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of Jehovah and set me down in the middle of the valley. The valley was full of bones. ² He caused me to pass among them round about. There were very many on the surface of the valley and they were very dry. ³ He said to me: »Son of man, can these bones live?« I answered, »O Lord Jehovah, you know.« ⁴ »‘Again he said: »Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. ⁵ »‘The Lord Jehovah says to these bones: »I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life. ⁶ »‘I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive. You will know that I am Jehovah.«’« ⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. As I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling. The bones came together, bone to its bone. ⁸ I looked, sinews were on them, and flesh grew and skin covered them. But there was no breath in them. ⁹ Then Jehovah said to me: »Prophesy to the wind (ruach: air, breath, spirit, life)! Prophesy, son of man. Tell the wind, this is what the Lord Jehovah says: ‘Come from the four winds, O Breath, and breathe on these people who were killed so that they will live.«’« ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath of life entered them. Then they came to life and stood on their feet. There were enough of them to form a very large army. ¹¹ Jehovah also said: »Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed. ¹² Prophesy and tell them: ‘This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »My people, I will open your graves and take you out of them. I will bring you to Israel. ¹³ Then, my people, you will know that I am Jehovah, because I will open your graves and bring you out of your graves.«’ ¹⁴ ‘I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. I will place you in your own land. Then you will know that I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I have done it,’ declares Jehovah.«

²⁹ Jesus answered: »You are mistaken! You do not know the scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰ »In the resurrection they will not marry nor be given in marriage. They will be like the angels in heaven. ³¹ »Concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you read that which was spoken to you by God? ³² »God said: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ God is not the God of the dead, but of the living!«

²⁸ »Do not wonder about this for the hour is coming when everyone in the grave will hear his voice. ²⁹ »They will return. Those who did good will have the resurrection of life. Those who did evil will receive the resurrection of judgment.

⁸ »Why should it be an incredible thought to you that God should raise the dead?

⁴² So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption. ⁴³ It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness and it is raised in power. ⁴⁴ It is sown a natural body and it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.

⁵¹ Behold, I show you a secret. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last reverberation of the trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

²¹ Christ will, through his power, bring everything under his authority. He will change our humble bodies and make them like his glorified (glorious) body (literally and figuratively: body of his glory). He is able to subject all things to himself.

¹⁴ If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. ¹⁵ We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep. ¹⁶ For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first.

⁷ Be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and late rains. ⁸ You also be patient. Make your hearts firm, for the coming of the Lord is near.

¹³ The sea gave up the dead in it. Death and the grave delivered up the dead in them. Every man was judged according to his works.

³ »‘Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

⁸ »‘Your hands formed me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me?

²² »Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply.

⁴ He addresses (summons) heaven and earth to judge his people: ⁵ »Gather around me, my godly ones who have made a covenant with me through sacrifices.«

⁸ Jehovah will do everything for me. O Jehovah, your mercy endures forever. Do not let go of what your hands have made.

¹⁷ We that are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so will we ever be with the Lord.

¹⁹ Let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend themselves in well doing to a faithful Creator.

²⁸ Now, my little children dwell (Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present) with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (presence) (being near).

⁶ »‘Must you search out my faults and probe after my sin?

¹⁴ »‘If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.

⁴ »Does he not see my ways and count my every step?

¹¹ »He fastens my feet in shackles and he keeps close watch on all my paths.

²¹ »God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps.

⁶ They attack, they lurk, and they watch my steps. They have waited for my life.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, you have searched me and you know me. ² You know when I sit down and when I rise up. You understand my thought from afar. ³ You inspect my path and my lying down. You are intimately acquainted with my ways. ⁴ Even before I speak words from my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, You know it all.

²¹ The ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah. He ponders all his paths.

¹⁹ »You are great in counsel and mighty in deed. Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men. You give to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.

³⁴ »Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures?

¹⁹ »You say: ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let God repay them so they may know.

¹² »Ephraim's wickedness is on record. The record of the people's sins is safely stored away.

⁴ »You tear yourself to pieces in your anger! Is the earth to be abandoned for your sake? Or must the rocks be moved from their place?

²⁵ »You founded the earth of old. The heavens are the work of your hands. ²⁶ »They will perish, but you endure. All of them will wear out like a garment; like clothing you will renew them and they will be renewed.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?

¹⁵ »See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff. ¹⁶ »You will winnow them. The wind will pick them up and a gale will blow them away. But you will rejoice in Jehovah and glory in the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁰ »Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,« says Jehovah. »I have compassion on you.«

¹ O that you would split open the heavens and come down! The mountains would quake at your presence.

²⁴ I see the mountains. They tremble and the hills sway.

⁵¹ The veil (curtain) of the temple was ripped in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks split.

¹⁴ The sky was split apart like a scroll when it is rolled together. Every mountain and island was moved from their places.

⁸ The second angel blew his trumpet. Something like a great mountain burning with fire was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea became blood.

¹⁷ »I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens. Every creature that has the breath of life in it, everything on earth will perish.

²¹ Every living thing that moved on the earth perished: birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out. Men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

⁸ »What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

⁶ Now as for me, I said in my prosperity: »I will never be shaken.« ⁷ By your favor, O Jehovah, you made my mountain to stand strong. You hid your face and I was alarmed (dismayed).

¹¹ Jehovah also said: »Son of man, all the people of Israel are like these bones. The people say: Our bones are dry, and our hope has vanished. We are completely destroyed.

¹⁹ »I will say to my self: ‘You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.’ ²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’

¹² They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

⁸ No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

⁸ Their face is blacker than night. In the streets no one has knowledge of them. Their skin is hanging on their bones, and they are dry, they have become like wood.

²⁰ She too was dying. The women helping her said: »Do not be afraid. You have given birth to a son.« But she did not answer or pay attention.

⁶ »Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

¹⁸ I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me. ¹⁹ Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.

⁵ The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.

⁷ »‘Some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away! They will become officers in the palace of the king of Babylon.’« ⁸ »The word of Jehovah you have spoken is good,« Hezekiah replied. For he thought: »There will be peace and security in my lifetime.«

¹⁶ You are our Father. Even though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not pay attention to us, O Jehovah, you are our Father. Your name is our Defender From Everlasting.

²⁰ »My bones cling to my skin. I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth (with almost nothing).

²² »Why do you pursue me as God does? Why are you never satisfied with my flesh?

¹⁹ »On the other hand a man may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in his bones. ²⁰ »His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal. ²¹ »His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his bones, once hidden, now stick out.

²³ »He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴ »He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire!